potassium chloride

Questions about potassium chloride

What does potassium chloride mean?

potassium chloride means "salt of potassium (KCl) (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency".

What is another word for potassium chloride?

Close synonyms include potassium muriate, potash muriate, K-Dur 20, Kaochlor, K-lor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is potassium chloride a common word?

potassium chloride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.